Am I a transcendentalist?

I would say that I am a transcendentalist because I do think that everyone is their own independent self, and it should stay like that. Everyone should be themselves; if they're not, they keep living a lie because they seem as something they're not to other people. In Emerson's "Self-Reliance", he states, "To believe your own thought, to believe what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, --that is genius." Although I think this applies to women as well, I think that this statement is true for everyone. People should know what they believe is true and what is not in their own heart, and they should follow their heart.

Americae nova tabula

There are a lot of descriptive things in this map. One is that there are ships all over the oceans that surround the Americas, and also to the left of the top of South America is what looks to be a sea monster. There are four of these monster-like creature drawings on this map. At the top of the map there also appers to be drawings of what the towns, possibly sky views of what looks like in either different parts of  America, or different parts of the world.
The ships might represent different ways/paths/routes that different people took on a voyage to America(s).  It also seems as though this drawing has South America pretty accurate, but North America seems way off, although I'm not sure if this is because they were still exploring America or not.
Another thing I noticed about this map was that most of the flags on the ships look the same, excluding only a couple.
The last thing was that on both sides of the map there seems to be drawings maybe of how men dealt with different things, such as one of the pictures on the left look like they're almost arresting a man for doing something wrong.

http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/1665b5.jpg